Montessori Spindle Box Lesson Activity Age 3 to 6

MONTESSORI ACTIVITY:

The Spindle Box

MONTESSORI OBJECTIVES:

To teach the child that numbers can represent a collection of separate objects.

To give the child an experience of zero.

The quantities are loose and the numbers are fixed

MONTESSORI MATERIALS:

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Two wooden boxes of five compartments each with the numerals 0-9 printed above each compartment. 45 loose wooden spindles are included in this set.

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Product Features

• 45 loose wooden spindles are included in this set.
• Two wooden boxes of five compartments each with the numerals 0-9 printed above each compartment.

A wooden box in two sections, each section has 5 compartments. The compartments are marked from 0 to 9.

There are 45 spindles in a wooden box.

CONTROL OF ERROR:

There are only enough spindles for each compartment.

AGE:

4 years approx.

MONTESSORI SPINDLE BOX PRESENTATION 1:

1. Begin the work cycle.
2. Ask the child to lay out a table or floor mat.
3. The child carries the boxes to the table one by one.
4. Look at the spindle with the child and name it.
5. Point to the one on the box and say “one”.
6. Place one spindle in your left hand and say “one”.
7. Place the spindle in the appropriate compartment and again say “one”.
8. Point to the next
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9. Show the child how to pack the spindles back into the box and how to return the work to the shelf.

MONTESSORI SPINDLE BOX EXTENSION 1:

The same as exercise 1 except that the child uses ribbons or elastic bands to tie each group of two to nine spindle into a bundle before placing them into the their partition.

Show the child how to use the short ribbons first and then the longer ones for the larger numbers.

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